Kamala and other poems

Book Name in English : Kamala and other poems

The poems in this volume throb with a sense of vitality that a fresh plant would reveal when given the right environment to thrive.... I am sure the discerning reader will emerge fully satiated after having partaken of the agony and the ecstasy, the twists and turns of the inner life of a sensitive soul. There is a certain sense of sincerity that marks the poetic language of Jayakumar - I would see it as belonging to “the cult of sincerity“. Just anyone curious enough to flick through the following pages would certainly feel this sense of genuineness, a profound attempt to reach forth into the essence of language and not to be a mere spectator in a linguistic game of hide and seek that most poetry of the present suffers from. The poet longs to embrace each fleeting word, every fluttering phrase.... (From Foreword by Murali Sivaramakrishnam)